Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to flower
Participle: flowered
Gerund: flowering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | flower |
| you | flower |
| he;she;it | flowers |
| we | flower |
| you | flower |
| they | flower |
Perfect
| I | have flowered |
| you | have flowered |
| he;she;it | has flowered |
| we | have flowered |
| you | have flowered |
| they | have flowered |
Past
| I | flowered |
| you | flowered |
| he;she;it | flowered |
| we | flowered |
| you | flowered |
| they | flowered |
Pluperfect
| I | had flowered |
| you | had flowered |
| he;she;it | had flowered |
| we | had flowered |
| you | had flowered |
| they | had flowered |
Future
| I | will flower |
| you | will flower |
| he;she;it | will flower |
| we | will flower |
| you | will flower |
| they | will flower |
Future Perfect
| I | will have flowered |
| you | will have flowered |
| he;she;it | will have flowered |
| we | will have flowered |
| you | will have flowered |
| they | will have flowered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | flower |
| you | flower |
| he;she;it | flower |
| we | flower |
| you | flower |
| they | flower |
Perfect
| I | have flowered |
| you | have flowered |
| he;she;it | have flowered |
| we | have flowered |
| you | have flowered |
| they | have flowered |
Imperfect
| I | flowered |
| you | flowered |
| he;she;it | flowered |
| we | flowered |
| you | flowered |
| they | flowered |
Pluperfect
| I | had flowered |
| you | had flowered |
| he;she;it | had flowered |
| we | had flowered |
| you | had flowered |
| they | had flowered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would flower |
| you | would flower |
| he;she;it | would flower |
| we | would flower |
| you | would flower |
| they | would flower |
Perfect
| I | would have flowered |
| you | would have flowered |
| he;she;it | would have flowered |
| we | would have flowered |
| you | would have flowered |
| they | would have flowered |
Imperative
| you | flower |
| we | Let's flower |
| you | flower |
Verbs conjugated like 'flower'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'flower'
flowe,
glower,
lower,
beflower,
blowe,
bower,
cower,
deflower,
dower,
efflower,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1200, from O.Fr.
flor, from L.
florem (nom.
flos) "flower" (see flora), from PIE base
*bhlo- "to blossom, flourish" (cf. M.Ir.
blath, Welsh
blawd "blossom, flower," O.E.
blowan "to flower, bloom"). Modern spelling is 14c. Ousted O.E. cognate
blostm (see blossom). Also used from 13c. in sense of "finest part or product of anything." The verb is first recorded c.1225.
Flower children "gentle hippies" is from 1967.
2. From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of fleur, flor, flour, bloom, and blossom.
3. Partly displaced native Old English blostma (which is cognate), whence Modern English blossom.
Verbs referencing "flower"
Scots
flour.
Sample Sentences
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This plant flowers in June.
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when flowr'd my youthful spring [1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:]
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It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course. [1940 Mahadev Desai, translator, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography, Part III (IX) The Story of My Experiments with Truth/Part III/Simple Life, original published 1927-1929]
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In life after life of this now-expanded circle of women artists, writers and revolutionaries, the same appeared: a flowing of creative insight and vision seemed the follow a sexual flowering. [2012, Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography, page 43:]
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That beer did flower a little. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
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observations which have flowered off [[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:]